PDF to markdown for LLMs
A developer tested three open-source PDF-to-markdown converters — Microsoft's MarkItDown 0.1.8, IBM Research's Docling 2.131.0, and Datalab's Marker 2.0.0 — on three synthetic PDFs (a two-page report …
A developer tested three open-source PDF-to-markdown converters — Microsoft's MarkItDown 0.1.8, IBM Research's Docling 2.131.0, and Datalab's Marker 2.0.0 — on three synthetic PDFs (a two-page report …
A developer building RAG over scientific papers found that PDF parsers tuned for business documents often fail silently on equations and tables, producing plausible but incorrect outputs. After testin…
Datalab released Marker 2, a full rewrite of its open source document conversion pipeline, which scores 76.0% on the olmOCR-bench benchmark from Allen AI and sustains 2.9 pages per second on a single …
Datalab released Marker 2, a full rewrite of its open source document conversion pipeline, scoring 76.0% on the third-party olmOCR-bench benchmark from Allen AI while sustaining 2.9 pages per second o…
Datalab released Lift, a 9B vision model for schema-first document extraction that directly outputs structured JSON from PDFs and images, claiming 90.2% field accuracy. The tool competes with NuExtrac…